Easter Egg Hunt

Peder and Kirsten were happily having a conversation on the front steps of the Parkington's mansion, nibbling on chocolate-covered donuts and giggling.

The only thing that was different than their usual conversations was that they were at the Parkington's house instead of their farm, Kirsten was wearing her fanciest dress, and Peder was dressed up as a bunny.

This was, of course, because it was Easter Sunday.

Peder had been selected as this years' Easter bunny by Miss Samantha, and had carefully hidden little eggs around the town for her Proper School students to go and find. Lara Larson had been eager to play along, and had sewn Peder a full-fledged Easter bunny costume, complete with little white fluffy ears and a cotton tail.

"You'd better be careful not to get any chocolate on your bunny costume," Kirsten warned, taking a bite of her donut. "Mom would have a fit. The whole thing is white!"

"I know, Kirsten," Peder answered, annoyed that his sisters always had to remind him to "be careful" about things. He was always careful!

Inside the house, the music room was filled with all of Miss Samantha's proper school students, dressed for once in their Easter holiday finest rather than their traditional white-and-blue school uniforms.

"Good morning everyone!" Samantha said, waltzing into the room and greeting her students.

"Good morning, Miss Samantha!" They all replied, politely.

"Happy happy Easter to you all! What a wonderful day it is! Now I am sure you are all very excited to head out on your search for the Easter eggs, and they are all hidden now, thanks to our adorable little Easter bunny!" Samantha peered out the door, trying to catch a glimpse of Peder on the front porch.

"Yes, we are!" They all said, sitting up straighter and trying to find the nearest Easter egg so they could be the first one to get it.

"Well then, I shan't keep you hear any longer. The eggs are all hidden, all over the town! So take your Easter baskets, be polite, don't steal anyone else's eggs, and .... you may go!" Miss Samantha waved her hands and her white lace fan and all of the girls lept to their feet and ran in different directions to start the hunt.

Teresa headed straight past everyone to a place she knew well- the grand piano in near the bay window of the music room. Scattered along the white and black keys were little colored Easter eggs. She happily scooped them up.

After she had found all of the eggs in the music room, Teresa crossed the hall to the new Post Office and looked around. Up above her, in the letter sorting cabinet were some little colored Easter eggs. She quickly pulled over a chair and stood on it in order to reach them.

Teresa searched all over her house and found more Easter eggs upstairs on the beds and in the cabinets and in the bowls and cups in the kitchen.

"Oh this is such fun!" She said, finding some eggs on Samantha's comforter.

Katharine was having an easy time finding the eggs in her sisters' little apartment. They were scattered all over the tea set and on the little shelves in the upstairs.

"Oh goody, I will get so many eggs because no one else is searching in my house!" She giggled.

Heather was having a lovely time slowly peering around the rancho and looking for Easter eggs. She found a few on the table in the cocina by Mrs. Montoya's Easter thunder cake...

And two more on the mantel of the grand sala fireplace, colored in fire colors.

Also searching the rancho was Rebecca, who was searching her Papa's desk for Easter eggs. There were several there, and she quickly snatched them up and dumped them in her basket.

She also found several fire-colored eggs surrounding the outside bread oven, the horno.

After she had finished with her search inside the rancho, Rebecca crossed the river and headed to Ana and Tomas's house by the goat shed and found some more Easter eggs hiding on Tomas's guitar, which had been left on the floor in the family's haste to get to town that morning.

Heather hadn't quite given up on finding eggs inside the rancho. She slowly and carefully made her way up the ladders to the watchtower and looked through the area set aside for Josefina's herbs and remedies and found quite a few colorful eggs hidden among the dried leaves and flowers.

Meanwhile, at the Parkington's house, people had begun to arrive for their Easter garden party. Angelica, Kirsten and Alex had taken seats in the wicker furniture in a corner of the garden, trying to stay out of the way of the fancy ladies in big gowns that had started to enter the garden.

Elinor was having great time. She never got to do anything "fun," mostly because she didn't ever venture outside her house and her restaurant, but she was finding Easter eggs all over the place. There was a huge pile in her room....

...as well as some hidden in the pots and pans sitting on the stove downstairs.

The Merrimans had arrived at the garden party and were mingling with the guests. Lily Merriman was examining the many teacups arranged on one of the lacy tables, and Felicity was scanning the crowd, trying to find someone fashionable to talk to - preferably Lisa.

"Why is Lisa not here yet?" Felicity asked herself, frustrated. "I need her to see my brand new dress and tell me how stylish I am being!"

Kirsten was exploring the buffet table, enjoying the Merriman's strawberry tarts that were sitting near the desserts. Alison arrived, carrying her pot roast to share with everyone.

"Hi Alison!" Kirsten said, offering her a tart. "Nice to see you here."

"Yeah I know, this is weird," Alison said, putting down her pot roast and taking the tart from Kirsten. "Usually I'd be wearing my uniform and standing in the corner watching at one of the Parkington's events, but since I'm having my month off I get to just be a guest. It's a little strange."

"Yeah, I guess that would be weird." Kirsten thought. "But you can enjoy it anyway, right?"

Vera was leading the Easter egg hunt in town square, finding the hardest-to-reach eggs that were hiding on top of buildings, like the bank.

Creme found quite a few eggs perched on a windowsill and carefully brought them inside before they could fall down into Mrs. Wickon's rose bush, far below.

There were eggs hidden in the grass by the bank, and on top of the old letters box in town square....

Samantha had arrived at her own garden party after seeing off the Proper School students on their search, and now she was flitting around the party like a butterfly, making sure to make each and every guest feel welcome and complimenting them on their dresses and hairstyles until they felt like the most wonderful person at the party.

Mr. Montoya, wearing his best Easter shirt, was feeling a little out of place among all of the large skirts and pastels floating around the garden. He admired the painted Easter eggs hanging on trees on each of the lace-covered tables and also the baskets full of whiskeys and brandies that he could chose from. He felt overwhelmed.

Meanwhile, Felicity was being interrogated by Lavendar Fox about her dressmaking schedule for their Europe trip. She was very awkwardly trying to explain why she had only made one dress in the last 10 months.

Britta was exploring her farm and house to find her eggs. They were scattered all over her porch when she got there - even on top of the rocking chair!

There were eggs balanced on the railings of the treehouse by the waterfall...

Rachel was one of the first ones back to the Parkington's house with her full basket, which she proudly showed to Miss Samantha.

"I found nearly all of them in my own house," she made sure to add.

That is a very beautiful and colorful basket you have there, Rachel, congratulations!" Said Rebecca from the couch, where she was relaxing. All the guests had just left and the maids were cleaning up the garden and putting things away.

The Parkingtons had come back to the music room to see the eggs that Rachel and Teresa brought back from their hunts.

Rebecca was still finding eggs hidden all over her front yard. There were eggs inside and outside of her mailbox...

...and balanced precariously on her cocina's window sill.

Britta was also still finding Easter eggs all over the place. She had finished looking outside, and now she was finding them all over the inside of her cabin. They were on Kirsten's desk, on the fireplace mantel, on the ledge of the fireplace....

...and even on Britta's own writing desk in her loft.

"Wow Britta," Peder said, peering into Britta's full bucket of grass and Easter eggs. "You really got a lot of eggs in there!"

Britta smiled and gloated a little bit.

"Yeah, I probably got the most eggs of everyone in the whole town. I should win some kind of prize." She said, happily.

"You got all these pretty eggs, I'd say that's a good enough prize," Kirsten said, picking them up and carefully looking at the different colors and sizes.

Meanwhile, everyone returned slowly to their homes to enjoy the rest of the holiday together. Cristal, who had purchased a brand new motor car from a catalogue in New York, was driving it around and around the block, puttering along and offering rides to all of her friends.

It had been a wonderful way to spend a warm Spring afternoon, and enjoy the Easter celebrations. And now everyone was ready for Spring to arrive!

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